Bug 137134

*** Bug 136999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

As I mentioned in the other bug yesterday:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_otherproj.html#firefox

From upstream, not many languages are translated into 1.0PR ATM,
however we do need to support localization to our default languages.

Need Chris' input on how possible to use 0.9.X packs.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_otherproj.html#thunderbird

Number of the thunderbird translations for 0.8 is not that great either.

The traditional Chinese firefox can be downloaded from here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10/contrib-localized/firefox-1.0PR.zh-TW.linux-i686.tar.gz

The reference page is:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/0.10.html#download

Hi,

The Korean Mozilla Project website is: http://www.mozilla.or.kr/

And also 
* Korean Mozilla Website: http://www.mozilla.or.kr/products/mozilla1.x/
* Korean thunderbird website:
http://www.mozilla.or.kr/products/thunderbird/
* Korean firefox website: http://www.mozilla.or.kr/products/firefox/

If you want to download the Korean lang packs for each application, 
please go to:

* Korean version of Mozilla: 

http://www.mozilla.or.kr/download/?http://www.mozilla.or.kr/download//mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7.2-koKR-installer.tar.gz

* Korean version of thunderbird:

http://www.mozilla.or.kr/download/?http://www.mozilla.or.kr/download//thunderbird-0.7.3-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-koKR.tar.gz

* Korean version of firefox:

http://www.mozilla.or.kr/download/?http://www.mozilla.or.kr/download//firefox-0.9.3-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer-koKR.tar.gz

Hope this helps! (If it does, 5 dollars please :)

Michelle 

Hi there,

It looks like the French version are at the following
address:http://frenchmozilla.sourceforge.net/
Regards,
JP

Mozilla Project's lack of a centralized translation project makes it a
huge burden for us package distributors to maintain.  Too often with
new versions language packs disappear as the package maintainers are
not able to quickly find all language packs, or the language packs are
not maintained satisfactorily to be included (since no translation is
better than poor translation).

After RHEL4 we must make it a priority to help organize an upstream
centralized Mozilla translation project, or this bad situation with
language packs will continue forever.

For RHEL4 the best we can do is import only whatever languages are
ready, and hopefully fix it later in RHEL4 U1.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-0.11-l10n/linux-xpi/

ja-JP.xpi works for me anyway (with "firefox -UILocale ja[_JP[.UTF-8]]"
as reported in bug 138339).

It would good if firefox would fallback to English menus when it
is run with "firefox -UILocale $LANG" for a locale without a lang
pack installed btw.

fwiw, I package my language packs like in

http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/fedora/firefox-de-1.0-2.src.rpm 
(360kB)
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/fedora/firefox-de.spec
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/fedora/thunderbird-de.spec


I am not sure whether the Xvfb trick is still needed; perhaps a better
method exists in the meantime. I know that the firefox URL does not
work, it is from a nightly build.



A base-concept is the

| pref("intl.locale.matchOS", true);

which enables the standard Linux i18n through the $LANG variable. It
is said that it increases the startup-time of the browser but I have
not made any measurements on this.

When there is not exist such a performance impact, it should replace
the current /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/defaults/pref/firefox-l10n.js which
contains

| pref("general.useragent.locale", "en-US");

I package my language packs like in

http://mozilla.ru/unghost/firefox/1.0/

May be this way is better? 

*** Bug 139196 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Hi All,

I just happened to find this FTP site that contains (maybe) all
versions of Firefox 1.0:

ftp://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-0.11-l10n/

I downloaded and installed the Traditional Chinese one and found it
works well (time stamp is 15 Nov, 2004). It seems to be the right
version we're looking for:

ftp://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-0.11-l10n/firefox-1.0.zh-TW.linux-i686.installer.tar.gz

or 

ftp://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-0.11-l10n/firefox-1.0.zh-TW.linux-i686.tar.gz


However, on the TC Firefox website (http://moztw.org/) it doesn't
mention this release.

Thunderbird 0.9 Traditional Chinese version can be found at:
http://moztw.org/dls/tb/thunderbird-0.9-linux-gtk2xft-zhTW.tar.bz2

Hi Folks!
I just installed both pt_BR packages in my machine, and they look
great. Please follow these steps to download the Brazilian Portuguese
packs:

Firefox
go to http://www.mozilla.org.br/saite/
click on "Baixe já!" on the horizontal upper menu
click on the Firefox logo
click on the ligh blue link "Baixe já!"

Thunderbird
go to http://www.mozilla.org.br/saite/
click on "Baixe já!" on the horizontal upper menu
click on the Thunderbird logo
click on the ligh blue link "Baixe já!"

Cheers,
Dave

I picked up all of the languages that were available upstream.  These
include:

ast-ES.jar
ca-AD.jar
cs-CZ.jar
da-DK.jar
de-DE.jar
el-GR.jar
en-GB.jar
es-AR.jar
fi-FI.jar
fr-FR.jar
he-IL.jar
hu-HU.jar
it-IT.jar
ja-JP.jar
ja-JPM.jar
ko-KR.jar
nb-NO.jar
pl-PL.jar
pt-BR.jar
ro-RO.jar
ru-RU.jar
sl-SI.jar
sv-SE.jar
zh-CN.jar
zh-TW.jar

There should be more coming upstream some time soon as issues with
individual packs are ironed out.

Thanks for the lang packs in firefox. Been through all the 14
supported locale for RHEL4 and noticed that 6 of the supported locale
does not have a lang pack. 

Chris,
Is there any plan for these lang pack to be included for RHEL4?

1) es_ES
2) bn_IN
3) gu_IN
4) hi_IN
5) pa_IN
6) ta_IN

Thanks.

AFAIR, Firefox has not yet been translated to any of the 5 supported
indic languages.

In firefox-1.0-12.EL4, the following Language Packs are not available.

1) es_ES
2) bn_IN
3) gu_IN
4) hi_IN
5) pa_IN
6) ta_IN

I know Punjabi translation is available (pa_IN):
thunderbird:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.0/linux-i686-gtk2+xft/xpi/
firefox:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/punlinux/firefox-1.0.pa.installer.tar.gz?download

Sarah

Any ideas when a Punjabi version will be available on the main website?

Are the indic languages being translated?  We need to know about
translation projects or it will not happen.

Well the Punjabi version has already been translated (1.0 final). 
Although it's not on the main web site.  See:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/punlinux/

punjabi is also available to main website of thunderbird also, check 
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/all.html

latest firefox (1.0.2-3) and thunderbird (1.0.2-1) in rawhide don't have
language packs again

confirmed.
firefox-1.0.3-2 have only english on this norwegian bokmål system.

Is there a huge problem that it has not been translated to *all* supported
languages yet? Isn't it better to push it with support for 90% of the languages,
and add the rest as they come?

reopening? It says "closed rawhide" and it is not fixed, but it is out of my
reach to reopen it...

*** Bug 127922 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Its still here on FC4-test3.

Is there anything the i18n team can do to help with this?

caillon said he is attempting to fix this and other FC4Blocker issues before the
final freeze.  This issue may be complicated by the fact that the last time we
added the language packs, firefox would mysteriously fail to start in new
profiles.  If this happens again, it would be even more of a blocker for FC4
than missing language packs.

From here,
you can find the activities of firefox/thunderbird localisation:-

http://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Firefox_1.0.x_Status
http://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Firefox_1.1.x_Status
http://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Thunderbird_1.1.x_Status

It says that indic languages are also going to be included...

http://people.redhat.com/caillon/RPMS/rawhide/mozilla.org/firefox-1.0.4-2.2.i386.rpm
for anyone that wishes to test.  I will note that Firefox is likely to get fixed
for FC4 final, however Thunderbird is not (I will attempt it as an update). 
Thus, I recommend we split this bug up into two.

I can confirm that my firefox is now in Norwegian :)

Doesn't work for me (UI is english), and interestingly google is in zh_TW
I've also tried setting LANG to nb_NO with no effect.

Created attachment 114693 [details]
output of "sh -x /usr/bin/firefox -debug"

http://people.redhat.com/wtogami/temp/firefox/
I copied i386, x86_64, and ppc binaries here along with SRPM for testing.

In response to Comment #43, created bug 158490 to track the inclusion of LANG
pack into thunderbird as FC4 update. Updating the summary of current bug as well.

firefox-1.0.4-2.2.i386 is working very well for me in Japanese. :)
I tested both for an existing user and a new user.

Also for languages I tried, the search box always seems to default
to Argentina Google!  Also there are an enormous number of search site
alternatives now: well far to many - looks like those of all langpacks
may be appearing...

I too went to Argentina Google while in en_US.UTF-8.  This is a bit wacky.

Talked to Sopwith about this today.  It doesn't sound like he would allow this
in the distribution at this point because it doesn't solve an
installation/upgrade problem.  He didn't exactly say no either.  But at this
point I would say "wait for an upgrade" because the software is just misbehaving
too much.

http://people.redhat.com/wtogami/temp/firefox/
Newer binaries that are supposed to fix the above proble.  Please test!

Warren, firefox-1.0.4-3 still takes me to Argentinian Google.

Typing google.com in the Navigation Toolbar works fine. Brings me to the correct
google depending on the locale firefox was started.

eg. LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 firefox will bring up google japan

Noticed that with firefox-1.0.4-2/3, the issue I encounter is:
(Done by typing enter at the google box at the top right hand corner, navigation
menu)

zh_CN defaults to zh_TW (Not OK)
zh_TW defaults to zh_TW (OK)
ja_JP defaults to zh_TW (Not OK)
ko_KR defaults to zh_TW (Not OK)
en_US defaults to zh_TW (Not OK)

Seems to always default to zh_TW which is my desktop locale. I tried to create a
new profile as well.

I know, I said during the meeting that the build after -3 would remove
non-English search plugins.

1.0.4-3 works for me, too

Isn't it possible to have the search plugins language dependent?

For now no, it isn't a priority to make it ideal.  In the long term yes.

Can the package be split into sub packages? It's really huge now.
This would fix the search plugins too, it seems.

There is no way to make the search plugins dependent, even on the mozilla trunk.
 And it could be conceivable that I want to have multiple versions installed for
a locale...  Tricky issue that yeah needs to get resolved, but not right now.

The package won't be split up for fc4 -- that might happen in fc5.  the
localizations are huge, I agree, but it could be much worse in size.

fwiw, new files 1.0.4-3.1 at
http://people.redhat.com/caillon/RPMS/rawhide/mozilla.org/ for testing

When separate -langpack subpackages are not possible; can appropriate '%lang()'
attributes be set for them, please?

1.0.4-3.1 looks good to me too :)

[now if only I didn't need to scroll the above line off the screen
 and back into view to see it render properly (bug 149991):]

1.0.4-4 looks good to me too. :)

Closing this bug.  Please open a new bug for additional missing languages.